Anarchy after the collapse of a state

English Civil War

.The tumult of the English Civil War (1641–1651) led to the term to be taken up in political philosophy.^It was only later, in the second decade of the nineteenth century, that a term came to signify the total complex of the political philosophy of freedom, viz., liberalism.

.I wish we were all true-hearted, and that we did all carry ourselves with integrity.^The other is a conflict that America did not seek; one in which we are joined by 42 other countries — including Norway — in an effort to defend ourselves and all nations from further attacks.

^The answer: all of the above, and each saw it as his duty to ascertain what Hitler wished and carry out that will, always looking for opportunities to denigrate competitors and ingratiate himself with the Fuehrer .

.I think it doth go on mistrust, and things are thought too readily matters of reflection, that were never intended.^August 10, 2009 12:59 pm I think that LGF has completely jumped the shark, and I never go there anymore, going here instead.

.For my part, as I think, you forgot something that was in my speech, and you do not only yourselves believe that some men are inclining to anarchy, but you would make all men believe that.^They might think you are making it all up.

.And, sir, to say because a man pleads that every man hath a voice by right of nature, that therefore it destroys by the same argument all property -- this is to forget the Law of God.^One man to one woman is the law of God and nature.

.That there’s a property, the Law of God says it; else why hath God made that law, Thou shalt not steal?^No one is saying this is legitimate property, the question is economic, and as far as economics goes, private property exists when there is an exclusive, full right to the good in question.

DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM-- By Bob Avakian1 February 2010 7:40 UTCrwor.org [Source type: Original source]

.Nay thus: a gentleman lives in a country and hath three or four lordships, as some men have (God knows how they got them); and when a Parliament is called he must be a Parliament-man; and it may be he sees some poor men, they live near this man, he can crush them -- I have known an invasion to make sure he hath turned the poor men out of doors; and I would fain know whether the potency of rich men do not this, and so keep them under the greatest tyranny that was ever thought of in the world.^If they are paying for it (I know), then they can call the shots.

.And therefore I think that to that it is fully answered: God hath set down that thing as to propriety with this law of his, Thou shalt not steal.^The answer isn’t that the system must actually fail to provide these folks with what they THINK they want, namely, some European-style thing.

The Totalitarian Temptation and all that — Crooked Timber9 February 2010 17:20 UTCcrookedtimber.org [Source type: Original source]

^I replied; and if we asked him what due or proper thing is given by medicine, and to whom, what answer do you think that he would make to us?

^And Moses, the great lawgiver of ancient times, commanded the House of Israel that when they asked for a king in the promised land that, Thou shalt only set him king over thee whom Jehovah thy God will choose: from among thy brethren shalt thou set a king over thee.

^What, when the proletariat, together with the peasantry, directs its fight against one class, the bourgeoisie – not against the remnants of feudalism, but against the bourgeoisie – what, if you please, is such a revolution called ?

.Oliver Cromwell: I know nothing but this, that they that are the most yielding have the greatest wisdom; but really, sir, this is not right as it should be.^Knowing that everything is as it should be right now.

.No man says that you have a mind to anarchy, but that the consequence of this rule tends to anarchy, must end in anarchy; for where is there any bound or limit set if you take away this limit , that men that have no interest but the interest of breathing shall have no voice in elections?^You have very different interests, shall we say.

DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM-- By Bob Avakian1 February 2010 7:40 UTCrwor.org [Source type: Original source]

.Therefore I am confident on 't, we should not be so hot one with another.^Why should these United States be compelled to issue many billions of dollars every year to pay the debts of one foreigner to another foreigner?

."For the savage people in many places of America, except the government of small families, the concord whereof dependeth on natural lust, have no government at all, and live at this day in that brutish manner."^For the savage people in many places of America, except the government of small Families, the concord whereof dependeth on naturall lust, have no government at all; and live at this day in that brutish manner, as I said before."

FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY1 February 2010 7:40 UTCwww.hermanos.org [Source type: Original source]

[7].Hobbes finds three basic causes of the conflict in this state of nature: competition, diffidence and glory, "The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation". His first law of nature is that "that every man ought to endeavour peace, as far as he has hope of obtaining it; and when he cannot obtain it, that he may seek and use all helps and advantages of war". In the state of nature, "every man has a right to every thing, even to then go for one another's body" but the second law is that, in order to secure the advantages of peace, "that a man be willing, when others are so too… to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men as he would allow other men against himself". This is the beginning of contracts/covenants; performing of which is the third law of nature.^All this is going much faster than we had dared to hope.

^Authoritarian and totalitarian governments both promote the military, both control the press, both use fear as a mechanism for social control, both embody the state as supreme and most importantly, both impose law rather than evolve laws based on consensus.

After Stalin: Totalitarian or Authoritarian?9 February 2010 17:20 UTCforum.alexanderpalace.org [Source type: Original source]

^WHAT IS TOTALITARIANISM? Totalitarianism is a technical term used to describe governments in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralised control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.

The Khilafah is not a Totalitarian State9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.khilafah.com [Source type: Original source]

He distinguishes it from commonwealth, the situation when both land ownership and governance shared by the population at large, seeing it as a temporary situation arising from an imbalance between the form of government and the form of property relations.

^Maps of Time The exact moment and place that the erectional phenomenon of human government developed is lost in time; however, history does record the formations of very early governments.

Government Research - Kparts.com17 January 2010 18:19 UTCkparts.com [Source type: Original source]

^Murray Rothbard in particular published a four-volume history of the colonial and revolutionary eras, finding delight in a brief period of Pennsylvania's history when the state government virtually dissolved itself due to lack of interest.

^But more often than not, the showdowns on "Sons of Anarchy" amount to a simple shoving match: One faction does something bad, their enemies do something worse, the first group is forced to raise the stakes, etc.

Surely Peace alone is fruitful. .Anarchy is destruction: a burning up, say, of Shams and Insupportabilities; but which leaves Vacancy behind.^So as she's leaving this place I'm thinking I've got to go with her/this group, and hear what she has to say, or figure out what she's doing/going to do; I have to keep up with her.

Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.cassiopaea.org [Source type: Original source]

^Arthur refused to call the executive office or solve the problem and insisted that I leave saying that Lt. Prescott had informed him that I could not pick up any property.

.Know this also, that out of a world of Unwise nothing but an Unwisdom can be made.^Well guess what, if china decide to not use the dollar anymore than the shelves in every store would empty out because nothing is made in the US of A anymore.

.Arrange it, Constitution-build it, sift it through Ballot-Boxes as thou wilt, it is and remains an Unwisdom,-- the new prey of new quacks and unclean things, the latter end of it slightly better than the beginning.^Hitting voters over the heads with rifle buts and stealing ballot boxes, but in the end they were quite sophisticated about it.

.Let there be Order, were it under the Soldier's Sword; let there be Peace, that the bounty of the Heavens be not spilt; that what of Wisdom they do send us bring fruit in its season!-- It remains to be seen how the quellers of Sansculottism were themselves quelled, and sacred right of Insurrection was blown away by gunpowder: wherewith this singular eventful History called French Revolution ends.^How your wisdom is unknown to us .

.I may be permitted here to express my personal opinion.^In fact, the prophecy does not disclose which one of these "kings" shall be victorious in the present war, but the opinion is here expressed that neither one will have complete victory.

.But I know that great anarchy quickly leads to great exhaustion and that despotism, which is a kind of rest, has almost always been the necessary result of great anarchy.^When an error of such importance committed by the leading Party is not quickly corrected, the result is extremely damaging to the cause of national liberation and world socialism.

The Role of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the International Marxist-Leninist Movement1 February 2010 7:40 UTCwww.mltranslations.org [Source type: Original source]

^Even assuming that all goes well in negotiations, it is necessary to ask: What kind of peace will be the result?

FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY1 February 2010 7:40 UTCwww.hermanos.org [Source type: Original source]

^It is one thing to argue that anarchy would lead to the rule by the strongest; this is a causal claim about the likely results of the attempt to create an anarchist society.

.If we can achieve this only through the use of force by authorities, then it would be thoughtless to keep refraining from using such force.^Other commandos such as the Commando for the Vengeance of Martyrs, COVEMA, achieved notoriety through the practices of kidnapping, torture and homicide.

.Armand II was later exiled because he was viewed as being opposed to the revolution's violent tactics.^And this, without being really different, appears to be different, and has many points of view, of which only one is caught by the painter, who represents everything because he represents a piece of everything, and that piece an image.

Professor Chris Bossche commented on the role of anarchy in the revolution:

.In The French Revolution, the narrative of increasing anarchy undermined the narrative in which the revolutionaries were striving to create a new social order by writing a constitution.^Like the French Revolution, it was a social conflict.

^In the acquisition of riches, too, he will aim at order and harmony; he will not desire to heap up wealth without measure, but he will fear that the increase of wealth will disturb the constitution of his own soul.

Jamaica 1720

"As to those .Englishmen that came as mechanics hither, very young and have now acquired good estates in SugarPlantations and Indigo& co., of course they know no better than what maxims they learn in the Country.^You know better, no doubt.

To be now short & plain Your Lordship will see that they have no maxims of Church and State but what are absolutely anarchical."

.In the letter Lawes goes on to complain that these "estated men now are like Jonah's gourd" and details the humble origins of the "creolians" largely lacking an education and flouting the rules of church and state.^Nor would you praise the behaviour of States which act like the men whom I was just now describing.

.In particular, he cites their refusal to abide by the Deficiency Act, which required slave owners to procure from England one white person for every 40 enslaved Africans, thereby hoping to expand their own estates and inhibit further English/Irish immigration.^Uncle Kvetch “This requires that you accept that very particular notion of “coercion” that’s current on the American right, i.e., the one where allowing same-sex couples to marry is a dreadful imposition on every heterosexual married couple in the country.” .

The Totalitarian Temptation and all that — Crooked Timber9 February 2010 17:20 UTCcrookedtimber.org [Source type: Original source]

^One body there is, and one spirit, even as YOU were called in the one hope to which YOU were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all [persons], who is over all and through all and in all”.

Lawes describes the government as being "anarchical, but nearest to any form of Aristocracy". "Must the King's good subjects at home who are as capable to begin plantations, as their Fathers, and themselves were, be excluded from their Liberty of settling Plantations in this noble Island, for ever and the King and Nation at home be deprived of so much riches, to make a few upstart Gentlemen Princes?"[12]

Spain 1936

.After General Francisco Franco declared war on the Spanish government in 1936 (Spanish Civil War) the government lost control over much of Spain.^Anarchist militias in Spain very nearly won the civil war despite shortages of weapons, treachery by the Communists and intervention by Germany and Italy.

^Abraham Guillen (1913-1993) was a prolific anarchist activist and theoretician, veteran of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), and a lifelong member of the Spanish CNT who went into exile in South America in the late 1940s.

^As the U.S. ambassador in Spain, Mr. Stabler, wrote in February 1975 to Secretary of State (under President Ford) Henry Kissinger, “It will be much easier to reach an agreement with the Spanish Government to renew the military bases in that country if Franco stays in power.

Vicente Navarro: How the U.S. Schemed Against Spain's Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy1 February 2010 7:40 UTCwww.counterpunch.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^Because of this the Federation of Iberian Anarchists (FAI) was set up in 1927.

An Anarchist Perspective on the Spanish Civil War10 February 2010 11:17 UTCwww.english.illinois.edu [Source type: Original source]

.The Spanish Revolution occurred almost immediately after the failed coup of Franco, leading to the formation of worker's collectives all over Republican Spain.^The democratic forces in Spain, which had helped the Allies in defeating the Nazi regime in Europe (the first battalion to liberate Paris consisted of Spanish republicans), were hoping that the collapse of the Hitler regime would be followed by the collapse of one of its main allies in Europe – the Franco regime.

Vicente Navarro: How the U.S. Schemed Against Spain's Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy1 February 2010 7:40 UTCwww.counterpunch.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^Spanish anarchists played a critical role in the formation of the House of the World Worker and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-9) anarchist fighters and thinkers were offered sanctuary from Franco's fascist hordes in Mexico.

.Anarchists were instrumental in keeping the country running and holding back the Francoists, until they were attacked by the Republican government and their Communist allies.^They have been running the country the same way.

Albania 1997

.In the mid-1990s, Albania was becoming a liberalized economy after years under a controlled economy; the rudimentary financial system became dominated by Ponzi schemes, and government officials endorsed a series of pyramid investment funds.^This ensures the armed forces are fully under the executive control of the government and cannot become independent and carry out a coup d'état against the government as we have seen happening on numerous occasions in Muslim countries such as Turkey and Pakistan.

The Khilafah is not a Totalitarian State9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.khilafah.com [Source type: Original source]

^Another group getting a renewed start in the 1980s is the Federalist, which have the financial power and aim to endow chairs for legal scholars to promote corporatism in the University system there by controlling the legal system with their nonsense for years to come.

The Dawning of Fascism In America9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.spiritone.com [Source type: Original source]

^Protecting and stabilizing the Nation’s economy and ensuring public confidence in its financial systems; and .

NSPD 51: President can now establish Dictatorship under Emergency Conditions1 February 2010 7:40 UTCwww.freerepublic.com [Source type: Original source]

.Many Albanians, approximately two-thirds of the population, invested in them.^The prison population, nearing 2 million, is up 70% in the last decade and two-thirds of all the inmates did not commit an act of violence.

A Republic, If You Can Keep It16 January 2010 13:013 UTCwww.house.gov [Source type: Original source]

^The population is divided into two classes—one of husbandmen, and the other of warriors; from this latter is taken a third class of counsellors and rulers of the state.

.By 1997 the inevitable end came, and the people of Albania, who had lost $1.2 billion (out of a small population of 3 million), took their protest to the streets where uncontained rioting, fueled by their discontent at the state's failure to protect them from the fraud, led to the toppling of the government and the country descended into anarchy in which some 2,000 people were killed.^About 20,000 people were killed.

.Beginning in February, thousands of citizens gathered daily, demanding reimbursement by the government, which they suspected of profiting from the schemes.^They can differ on the magnitude of the governing clique, the military or civil nature of the authority, economic liberties granted for citizens, legality of political associations, legal framework, etc.

Dictatorship is the best path to development1 February 2010 7:40 UTCdebatewise.org [Source type: Original source]

^Once they returned to their HQ, the Coach demanded that the Orphan turn Paco over to the U. S. government.

^So, they accepted Hitler's demand to join the government only if he became Chancellor.

Lecture 10: The Age of Totalitarianism: Stalin and Hitler9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.historyguide.org [Source type: Original source]

.By March 1997, the protests had turned violent in the south, especially around the port city of Vlora, where numerous residents armed themselves with weapons looted from army barracks.^Violent confrontations between protesters & the police occur in Paris, where over 500,000 people turned out.

.On March 2, president Sali Berisha declared a state of emergency, but rioting and destruction spread throughout the country, gripping the capital, Tirana, for two weeks.^When the president determines a national emergency has occurred, the president can declare to the office of the presidency powers usually assumed by dictators to direct any and all government and business activities until the emergency is declared over.

.Although the government quelled revolts in the north, the government and military establishments began to scatter and anarchy swept across the country, the southern half of Albania falling under the control of rebels and criminal gangs.^The old Government surrendered without striking a blow, although it had about 400 men under arms and a battery of Gatling guns.

Was the 1893 overthrow of the monarchy illegal? Was it a theft of a nation owned by kanaka maoli and stolen by non-kanaka maoli?10 January 2010 4:57 UTCwww.angelfire.com [Source type: Original source]

^Government control of medicine has prompted the establishment of the National Medical Data Bank.

Is America a Police State?9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.house.gov [Source type: Original source]

^The UN Economic and Social Council in 1974 began to formulate a "Code of Conduct" to govern multinational corporations (MNCs) and established a "Commission on Transnational Corporations" to complete the work.

Totalitarian Global Management: The UN's War on the Liberal International Economic Order9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.cato.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

Somalia

.Before the Islamic Courts Union took control, large parts of southern Somalia were effectively functioning without a central government.^Cut the state back to the army, the cops, the courts, and jail, and you’ve still got a toolkit for tyranny, in the absence of effective democratic control of the executive branch.

The Totalitarian Temptation and all that — Crooked Timber9 February 2010 17:20 UTCcrookedtimber.org [Source type: Original source]

^Remember, one cannot create a “global economy” without a global government to manage, oversee, and control it.

.However, an economic survey by the World Bank found that distribution of wealth in the country was more equitable, and the extent of extreme poverty was lower than that found in nominally more stable West African nations.^However, it led to more stability and democracy.

.According to the same paper, although southern Somalia was effectively operating without a federal government before the rise to prominence of the Islamic Courts Union, it was not an anarchist society in the sense that society was more or less chaotic than organized non-coercively.^We need more government not less.

^I am an Anarchist but from what I have seen here, I never want to be involved in the Traditional Anarchist scene as those involved are against humanity, they may not condone genocide but are more than happy to attack anything that goes against their goal of chaotic society without any sense of progressive and natural values.

[13].Despite this, a libertarian think tank reported that living standards in Somalia increased – in absolute terms, relative to the pre-Somali Civil War era, and relative to other nations in Africa – during this period.^Died in 1917 during the war by civilized nations that ended all wars by civilized nations.

^In a country such as England, on the other hand, twenty years of civil war in the 17th century as well as the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , produced a constitutional monarchy.

Lecture 10: The Age of Totalitarianism: Stalin and Hitler9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.historyguide.org [Source type: Original source]

[14].Economist Peter Leeson attributes the rather astounding increase in economic activity[15] since the rise of statelessness to the security in life, liberty and property provided by Somali customary law — the Xeer — in most parts of Somalia, which insures for a relative free market.^Most Americans today prefer "security" rather than "liberty."

DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM-- By Bob Avakian1 February 2010 7:40 UTCrwor.org [Source type: Original source]

^However, pro-property and free market libertarians have been spreading their ideas worldwide through think tanks and political parties since the 1970s[24][25] and around the world libertarianism is often thought to refer to those ideas.

.It is currently battling various insurgent groups to regain control of the southern half of the country and restore national institutions.^One of the two main definitions associated with the concept of dictatorship refers to a single person, or a small group of people, controlling the government of a country.

List of ungoverned communities

The Free Territory was a region where an attempt was made to form a stateless, anarchist society.^Anarchists realize that quite to the contrary, the principal barriers to a free society are State and the institution of private property.

Political philosophy

Liberalism

.Every Neilien community is faced with two dangers, anarchy and despotism.^Facing the hard truth 7 Two The Dangers of Negotiations 9 .

FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY1 February 2010 7:40 UTCwww.hermanos.org [Source type: Original source]

The Puritans, especially the Independents, were most impressed by the danger of despotism. Hobbes, on the contrary, was obsessed by the fear of anarchy. .The liberal philosophers who arose after the Restoration and acquired control after 1688, realized both dangers; they disliked both Strafford and the Anabaptists.^That you feel fear and contempt about a group of people, and can find others who share your prejudice, is not evidence that they actually are dangerous or contemptible.

.Anarchists are those who advocate the absence of the state, arguing that common sense would allow people to come together in agreement to form a functional society allowing for the participants to freely develop their own sense of morality, ethics or principled behaviour.^An anarchist is on who advocates abolition of the state.

^We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” .

.The rise of anarchism as a philosophical movement occurred in the mid 19th century, with its idea of freedom as being based upon political and economic self-rule.^Mutualists are Anarchists associated with the ideas of 19th century Anarchist philosopher, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who based his future economy on "...a pattern of individuals and small groups possessing (but not owning) their means of production, and bound by contracts of mutual exchange and mutual credit (instead of money) which would insure to each individual the product of his own labor.

^The difficulties of establishing basic heavy industries without foreign investment and in the absence of much domestic capital required the government to assume a large role, and state ownership became the rule in the new industries.

.The word "anarchy" is often used by non-anarchists as a pejorative term, intended to connote a lack of control and a negatively chaotic environment.^But that’s not how the word was originally used or intended.

.However, anarchists still argue that anarchy does not imply nihilism, anomie, or the total absence of rules, but rather an anti-statist society that is based on the spontaneous order of free individuals in autonomous communities.^No anarchist can still claim to be such and claim to possess some authority to tell another person he can’t trade his own labor or what he produces with it for what someone else does with hers.

Anthropology

.Some anarchist anthropologists, such as David Graeber and Pierre Clastres, consider societies such as those of the Bushmen, Tiv and the Piaroa to be anarchies in the sense that they explicitly reject the idea of centralized political authority.^Anarchists reject centralization of authority and the concept of a Central Committee.

[17].However, others argue that some tribal societies of the past have often been more violent than modern technological societies, on average.^Which proves that some will always be more equal than others.

Some more recent anthropologists, such as Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee, have defied the notion of hunter-gatherer societies as being a source of scarcity and brutalization; describing them as, in the words of Sahlins, "affluent societies".[19]

.Adjudication by an armed authority appears to be the most effective violence-reduction technique ever invented.^The Brave New World we’re taking on has constructed the most insidious and effective form of state violence and repression ever seen by people.

.Though we debate whether tweaks in criminal policy, such as executing murderers versus locking them up for life, can reduce violence by a few percentage points, there can be no debate on the massive effects of having a criminal justice system as opposed to living in anarchy.^There is no escaping the system."

D.L. Cuddy: Chronological History of the New World Order9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.constitution.org [Source type: News]

.The shockingly high homicide rates of pre-state societies, with 10 to 60 percent of the men dying at the hands of other men, provide one kind of evidence.^And what do the rulers call one another in other States?

.Another is the emergence of a violent culture of honor in just about any corner of the world that is beyond the reach of law.^They talk about the people of the world being dumb and violent when they themselves do everything in their power to ensure people are dumb and violent.

Obama Science Advisor Called For “Planetary Regime” To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.prisonplanet.com [Source type: Original source]

^There is a hyper-dimensional world of vast inner space within your mind that is beyond the reach of the senses, accessible only by transcendent means.

Dreaming in a Totalitarian Society9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.cassiopaea.org [Source type: Original source]

^As Millikan feared, science has become just another aspect of a very real world totalitarian system.

..The generalization that anarchy in the sense of a lack of government leads to anarchy in the sense of violent chaos may seem banal, but it is often over-looked in today's still-romantic climate.[18]

.Some authors, such as Montague David Eder, question this vision of evolution, where humanity was able to reinvent itself in the last ten thousand years, to better fulfill its needs (see Myth of Progress).^In recent years, some privately run orphanages (not funded by the State) have started to operate, in which conditions may be generally better for children. In areas where such orphanages operate, some state-run orphanages have exhibited a willingness to learn from them and to adopt some of their more modern practices.

.Anarcho-primitivists, such as Ran Prieur, believe that this concept represents a way that current culture justifies the values of modern industrial society and as a manner in which civilization was able to move individuals further from their natural necessities.^I believe in workers control of society and industry, so I am an Anarcho-Syndicalist.

[20][21].Besides the consideration of authors, such as John Zerzan, of the existence of tribal societies having less violence altogether,[22] he and other authors such as Theodore Kaczynski (also known as the Unabomber) talk about other forms of violence against the individual in advanced countries, generally expressed by the term "social anomie", that results from the system of monopolized security.^Everyone is talking about Christians in general!

^Thomas M. Stork wrote about his editorials and his local papers decision to give exposure to them by saying this, quote, In the end, the only protection against such aberrations as the John Birch Society and such ridiculous leaders as Robert Welch lies in the informed good sense of the people.

"Totalitarian regimes of the future won't be based on terror... they have brainwashing & propaganda" - Democratic Underground9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.democraticunderground.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^Even the symbolism of such a form of government is inappropriate for a nation that attaches high value to democracy, social equality, and individual liberty.

[23].These authors do not dismiss the fact that humanity is changing while adapting to its different social realities,[24] but consider them an anomaly nevertheless.^Despite these facts, the reality is completely different.

^Another social problem was, the authority's politicizing of all the masses' organizations, transferring them away from the real nature of their goals and considering the struggle to achieve these goals a crime.

.The two end results are (1)that we either disappear or (2)become something very different, distant from what we have come to value in our nature.^Anarcho-capitalists have a very different picture of human nature.

.It has been suggested by experts that this shift towards civilization, through domestication, has caused an increase in diseases, labor and psychological disorders.^If we cannot argue that all barbarism is a degraded civilization, neither can we set any limits to the depth of degradation to which the human race may sink through war, disease, or isolation.

^The CIA has apparently used satellite photographs for "domestic coverage" to determine the size and activities of antiwar demonstrations and civil disorders.

The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove9 February 2010 17:20 UTCweb.mit.edu [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.

Obama Science Advisor Called For “Planetary Regime” To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.prisonplanet.com [Source type: Original source]

[25][26][27].On the other hand, concerning the necessity of violence in the primitive world, anthropologist Pierre Clastres expresses that violence in primitive societies is a natural way for each community to maintain its political independence, while dismissing the state as a natural outcome of the evolution of human societies.^Here we will not concern ourselves with refuting those who deny the existence of such a degeneration and who maintain that in Russia there is a true revolutionary working class power, an actual evolution of the economic forms towards communism, and a coordination with the other proletarian parties of the world which will actually lead to the overthrow of world capitalism.

Force, violence and dictatorship in the class struggle1 February 2010 7:40 UTCwww.sinistra.net [Source type: Original source]

^Liberty , or freedom, is a topic which arises in any discussion concerning government; and it arises, not because government can contribute to freedom, in any way, but rather because government invariably, due to its very nature, encroaches on freedom.

From Wikiquote

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.^When you hear the word " anarchist " you probably think of a bomb-throwing assassin, and when you hear the word "anarchy" you think of violent rioters, turning order into chaos.

^Since The Republic is to be built on the ideals of order and goodness , the opinion s of the Guardians will be utterly in sync with state-sanctioned religion and morals.

The Republic@Everything2.com16 January 2010 13:013 UTCwww.everything2.com [Source type: Original source]

.That
State is the best governed which is governed the least.^Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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Dictionaries

"a political theory holding all forms of governmental authority
to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on
voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals and
groups"

the advocacy of anarchist principles: "one who rebels against
any authority, established order, or ruling power"

^The Scientific Manipulation of Public Thinking “Science has given us, in succession, power over inanimate nature, power over plants and animals, and finally power over human beings.” “It is the manipulative type of idealists who will create the scientific society.

"An array of philosophical and political positions arguing that
human societies function best without government or authority, and
which suggest that the natural state of people is one of living
together harmoniously and freely, without intervention."

Encyclopaediae

Definitions only - extended descriptions not included. It
is assumed, here, that definitions can be found close to the
beginning of the article, although this is disputed. For the best
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Historical

"ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the
name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which
society is conceived without government - harmony in such a society
being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any
authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various
groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the
sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of
the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized
being"

"Anarchy means an absence of law. Sociologically it is the
modern theory which proposes to do away with all existing forms of
government and to organize a society which will exercise all its
functions without any controlling or directive authority"

.This ideal has most often expressed itself in a doctrine
advocating the total absence of government as the only firm basis
for individual liberty and societal progress -- a doctrine that
some argue animates even Marxism (since Marx believed that
eventually the state would wither away).^In Engels’s famous formulation, the state “withers away.” This withering away has been regarded as unlikely, even fantastic, by bourgeois and anarchist critics who are apparently incapable of recognizing the differences in form and function between the capitalist and state and the proletarian state.

^In an article entitled The Futility of Government it said that the expropriations that were taking place would lead ipso facto to the "liquidation of the bourgeois state which would die of asphyxiation".

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^And I can only believe that good, reasonable people would choose to live here because they have some hope of changing everything.

.Anarchism differs from
political libertarianism in upholding a lack of government rather
than limited government.^Czech lawyer/novelist whose anarchist influences & ideas provide an aesthetic (rather than political) embodiment.

^They can differ on the magnitude of the governing clique, the military or civil nature of the authority, economic liberties granted for citizens, legality of political associations, legal framework, etc.

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^Any institution, be it political, religious, or social, which seeks to consolidate power and control and limit the individual freedoms of those it intends to govern, is an undemocratic abomination.

.There are several variants of anarchism,
usually categorized by whether the variant is collectivistic (e.g.,
anarcho-syndicalism) or individualistic (e.g., anarcho-capitalism)
in orientation.^And similarly there are a few internal debates between anarcho- capitalists, notably the tension between Rothbard's natural law anarcho-capitalism and David Friedman's more economistic anarcho-capitalism.

In popular usage, the term is often colored by the
sometimes-violent anarchist political movement that was especially
active in the years around 1900."

Theorists

Edward Abbey:
"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization,
based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust
the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians,
generals, and county commissioners." (A Voice Crying in the
Wilderness (Vox Clamantis en Deserto) : Notes from a Secret
Journal, 1990)

.Henry Appleton: "It simply means opposed to the arbitrary rule
of self-elected usurpers outside the Individual."^We simply can't make exceptions to the "don't use or threaten force unless in self-defense" rule.

.Emile Armand: "As the word "anarchy" etymologically signifies
the negation of governmental authority, the absence of government,
it follows that one indissoluble bond unites the anarchists.^One can conclude that the law governing the circulation of goods and ideas follow the same pattern; in Soviet mentality, objective facts ("goods") are exchanged for ideological words ("money").

.This
is antagonism to all situations regulated by imposition,
constraint, violence, governmental oppression, whether these are a
product of all, a group, or of one person.^One of the two main definitions associated with the concept of dictatorship refers to a single person, or a small group of people, controlling the government of a country.

^At that point it will no longer be a question in society about whether one group among the people is going to oppress and dominate another.

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^After all, the Republic provides a picture not just of a happy city but also of a happy individual person, and in Book One, Socrates argues that the ruler's task is to benefit the ruled.

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.In short, whoever denies
that the intervention of government is for human relationships is
an anarchist."^Drawing on the Gospels' themes of nonviolence and the equality of all human beings, these anarchists condemn government as contrary to Christian teaching.

.As a tendency it questions the
supremacy of the State, the infallibility of statute laws, and the
divine right of all authority, spiritual or temporal.^VI. (clause 2) This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

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^No, I said; not if we were right in the principle which was acknowledged by all of us when we were framing the State: the principle, as you will remember, was that one man cannot practise many arts with success.

.It is, in
truth, a product of Authority, the progeny of the State, a direct
consequences of the inadequacy of law and government to fulfill
their assumed functions.^And the creation of health is the institution of a natural order and government of one by another in the parts of the body; and the creation of disease is the production of a state of things at variance with this natural order?

.In short, the Anarchist tendency is a
necessity of progress, a protest against usurpation, privilege, and
injustice."^Their protests against actual injustices must be seen in light of their ultimate aim of imposing even more ruthless despotism upon the people.

^I all good things that was claimed is really a natural character of a dictatorship, then we should not have witnessed the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe or the irregularities in Burma.

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.Monarchy, democracy, communism, all useless forms to control the
human mind.^For example, William Giles in 1802 states in Congress: A great portion of the human mind has been at all times directed toward monarchy as the best form of government to enforce obedience and insure the general happiness; whereas another portion of the human mind has given a preference to the republican form as best calculated to produce the same end.

But a mind cannot be controlled. It cannot be
restrained. It has no boundaries. It has its will. .Anarchy is the
true nature of all things."^Any one who pretends to know all things is ignorant of the very nature of knowledge.

.It means
you should be free to do the things you want to do; and that you
should not be compelled to do what you do not want to do.^There should be no secret corner of illiberality; nothing can be more antagonistic than meanness to a soul which is ever longing after the whole of things both divine and human.

(...)
.That is to say, that there should be no war, no violence used by
one set of men against another, no monopoly and no poverty, no
oppression, no taking advantage of your fellow-man.^Will any one say that we should strengthen the monster and the lion at the expense of the man?

.In short,
Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are
free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and
sensible life."^It benefits everyone, all society and all people.

^As in, the end of child labor, the forty-hour work-week, the founding of America’s national parks — in short, all that totalitarian goose-stepping stuff that interferes with the natural order of human society, i.e.

"... the principles of terrorism unavoidably rebound to the
fatal injury of liberty and revolution. .Absolute power corrupts and
defeats its partisans no less than its opponents.^The bill gives FDA much more power than it has had in the past while making the agency less accountable for its actions.

.A people that
knows not liberty becomes accustomed to dictatorship: fighting
despotism and counter-revolution, terrorism itself becomes their
efficient school.^Under the motto of “the fight against terrorism”, Europe will commit itself to the war on terrorism (whatever that truly means) and will use this fact to build up arms.

^They were the only people who were clear about the 'necessity' for the counter-revolution and had the determination to carry it through.

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."Once on the road of terrorism, the State necessarily becomes
estranged from the people."^The highest command position of the State " then no longer belongs to the whole people, but, temporarily or permanently, becomes the privileged domain of one or another group of citizens.

.L. Susan Brown: "While the popular understanding of anarchism is
of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle
and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power.^This power is vested in the state or government."

.Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary
for society, and instead advocate more co-operative,
anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic
organisation."^Necessary sources of political power 18 .

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^The second thesis does not please the anarchists who, though they had the merit of advancing the first, had the illusion that immediately after bourgeois power was smashed society could dispense with all forms of organised power and therefore with the political state, that is to say with a system of social violence.

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(The Politics of Individualism, p. 106)

.Steven T. Byington: "Anarchism is a theory of political science
and is opposed to government in the political sense."^A more substantive variation is to argue that the opposing anarchism would be unstable and lead to the swift re- emergence of government.

.Noam Chomsky:
"...anarchism can be conceived as a kind of voluntary socialism,
that is, as libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or
communist anarchist, in the tradition of, say, Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin
and others.^The first is broadly known as "left-anarchism," and encompasses anarcho-socialists, anarcho-syndicalists, and anarcho-communists.

.They had in mind a highly organized form of society,
but a society that was organized on the basis of organic units,
organic communities.^Subversive” is what Washington would label an organization like DAI if they behaved in the same way in the United States in behalf of a foreign government.

.And generally, they meant by that the
workplace and the neighborhood, and from those two basic units
there could derive through federal arrangements a highly integrated
kind of social organization which might be national or even
international in scope.^There are two basic replies to this argument.

.And these decisions could be made over a
substantial range, but by delegates who are always part of the
organic community from which they come, to which they return, and
in which, in fact, they live."^In the context of the day, these are surely the descriptions of a leader who is prepared for and willing to take part in violence.

.Voltairine de Cleyre: "Anarchism,
to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new
economy, but a revision of the principles of morality.^The New Anarchist The New Anarchist "Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality.

.It means the
development of the individual as well as the assertion of the
individual.^It has been these individuals who have possessed the means to influence society's development through the ages, and have done so for similar reasons.

."Anarchists work towards a society of mutual aid and voluntary
co-operation.^(Interestingly, Burke scholars are still debating whether the early Burke's quasi-anarchistic A Vindication of Natural Society was a serious work or a subtle satire.

We reject all government and economic repression."
(mission statement for Freedom)[16]

.Alex Comfort: "Anarchism is that political philosophy which
advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the
reduction of concentrated power -- regal, dictatorial,
parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of
"government" -- to a vanishing minimum.^Separate communities in Turkey had a great deal of autonomy, the economy was largely a free market, and the dictatorial government mainly restricted itself, as had the Ottoman Empire, to maintaining and assuring its power and repressing any political competition or opposition.

Barclay, Harold (1982). .People Without
Government.^Without some Malthusian moralism to keep expectations low, there’s no reason to accept small government and everything it refuses to do to help people.

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^Canadian professor, wrote People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchism .

Emma Goldman:
"Anarchism: The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty
unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of
government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful,
as well as unnecessary." [17]

Emma
Goldman:"Anarchy stands for the liberation of the human mind
from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body
from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and
restraints of government."

.Emma
Goldman:"John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of
animals in captivity is absolutely useless.^US: Emma Goldman concludes a nine-month lecture tour of 11 states, which began in Barre, Vermont, where she is hosted by Salvatore Palavicini.

Their character, their
habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn
from their soil in field and forest. .With human nature caged in a
narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of
its potentialities?"^Human nature is coined into very small pieces, and as our guardians have their own business already, which is the care of freedom, they will have enough to do without imitating.

^Among early enquirers into the nature of human action the arts helped to fill up the void of speculation; and at first the comparison of the arts and the virtues was not perceived by them to be fallacious.

^And human nature, Adeimantus, appears to have been coined into yet smaller pieces, and to be as incapable of imitating many things well, as of performing well the actions of which the imitations are copies.

Bill Christopher, jack Robinson, Philip Sansom and Peter Turner:
"Anarchism is a philosophy of freedom. .It is a body of
revolutionary ideas which reconciles, as no other revolutionary
concept does, the necessity for individual freedom woth the demands
of society.^The only limit on individual freedom should be that it does not interfere with the freedom of others.

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^"Freedom" can correspond with this same "compulsion," however, when regarded as the "iron discipline" or "revolutionary violence" found in communist societies.

^The Paris Commune has confirmed that the proletarian forces must smash the old state instead of entering it and taking it over; its means must not be legality but insurrection.

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^It has adopted as the new religion of the state “the philosophy, sycophant of rulers.” It is a philosophy which, in flattering the claim of individual reason to absolute and unlimited autonomy, flatters the claims of political power to totalitarian domination.

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.Social structure in an anarchist society
would be carefully and consciusly kept to a minimum and would be
strictly functional; where organisation is necessary, it would be
maintained, but there would be no organisation for its own sake.^Have there been any historical examples of anarchist societies?

^The state serves society too, of course, and we all depend on it, but not for its own sake, as we have been deceived, and continue to deceive ourselves, into believing, but in order to exploit it, to the advantage of its social, political and professional elites.

^Its cardinal assertion is a thoroughgoing monism, political, social, juridical, religious: there is only one Sovereign, one society, one law, one faith.

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.This would help to prevent the hardening of organisations into
instututions - the hard core of government."^The government would pay insurance companies to help individuals buy policies on the new exchanges.

.The
anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the
exploitation of man by man.^American lawyer, defended liberals, socialists, radicals & anarchists whose civil liberties he worked to uphold.

Ammon
Hennacy:"Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need
them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are
they?"

.Joseph Labadie:"From my point of view the killing of another,
except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and
therefore, no Anarchist can commit such deeds.^From another point of view Justice .

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It is the very
opposite of what Anarchism stands for."

John William Lloyd: "For, what is Anarchism? It is logical human
liberty. .It is the ideal of human life without a master."^VII. Human life and conduct are affected by ideals in the same way that they are affected by the examples of eminent men.

Errico
Malatesta: "Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and
signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a
people without any constituted authority." (Anarchy: a
pamphlette)

."Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all
the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial,
military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their
own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care
of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided
to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or
delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for
all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the
collective force of the community to this end."^What do these words mean?

Errico
Malatesta: "... violence is the whole essence of
authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole
essence of anarchism." --"Anarchism, Authoritarian Socialism and
Communism" in What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction by
Donald Rooum, ed. .(London: Freedom Press, 1992, 1995) p.^See: William Adam Russ, "The Hawaiian Republic" (1894-98) (Associated University Press, London and Toronto 1992).

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59.

.Peter Marshall: "Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to
dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes
their complete abolition."^Clearly, all political changes originate in divisions of the actual governing power; a government which is united, however small, cannot be moved.

.Saul Newman: "Anarchism is, fundamentally, an ethical critique
of authority – almost an ethical duty to question and resist
domination in all its forms."^As in almost all of these cases, the question arises: Who is running whom?

.George
Nicholson: "There is something radically wrong, [the anarchist]
declares, in a system of society that functions and maintains its
existence by the impetus of violence and force.^Have there been any historical examples of anarchist societies?

^If you understand that, then the idea that we ought to maintain the credibility of this system and the force that's behind that credibility, looks very different to you.

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^The destructive nature of modern science makes it self-evident that there is something wrong with the way in which science has been practiced, and that life on this planet has been decisively damaged as a consequence.

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.He sees nothing
praiseworthy in political society which has recourse to periodic
wars, or need of jails, gallows and bludgeons--and it is because he
is aware that these brutal weapons are the instruments of every
government and State that he works for their destruction.^In the process of supporting a Salvadoran government of remarkable tyranny, brutality and human-rights violations, the United States provided the country’s armed forces with a never-ending supply of funds, weapons and training that brought continual destruction and suffering to the people of El Salvador.

^Coalition governments, based on the anti-fascist united fronts and led by the working class, were established in these nations.

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...

."Unlike the politician, he does not regard dishonesty, brutality
and avariciousness as natural characteristics of human nature, but
as the inevitable consequences of coercion and frustration
engendered by artificial law, he believes that these social evils
are best eradicated not by greater penalties and further
legislation, but by the free development of the latent forces of
solidarity and sympathetic understanding which government and law
so ruthlessly suppress.^If nature is frustrated, perversion is the consequence.

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^God and nature have planted there, and which no human legislator ever can eradicate.

."Freedom will be possible when people understand and desire
it--for man can only rule where others subserviently obey.^We have to understand this, and we have to bring this understanding to other people.

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Where
none obey, none has power to rule." --"The simplicity of anarchism"
in What Is Anarchism?: An Introduction by Donald Rooum,
ed. .(London: Freedom Press, 1992, 1995) p.^See: William Adam Russ, "The Hawaiian Republic" (1894-98) (Associated University Press, London and Toronto 1992).

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40.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
"Anarchy, -- the absence of a master, of a sovereign." (What is Property,
1840) "ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself --or
as the English say, self-government..." (The Federal
Principle, 1863) "The notion of anarchy...means that
once industrial functions have taken over from political functions,
then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social
order." (The Federal Principle, 1863) "Anarchy is... a
form of government or constitution in which public and private
consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,
is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all
liberties..." (Correspondence, 1864)

.Pierre Joseph Proudhon:"Laws: We know what
they are, and what they are worth!^(Daily Bleed reference page) PROUDHON, Pierre-Joseph .

.They are spider webs for the
rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets
in the hands of government."^On the other hand, they were not allowed to issue pastoral letters or instructions without the sanction of the Government.

.Vernon
Richards: "Violence,
contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist
philosophy.^The anarchist's goal is to disprove Churchill's claim: to show that contrary to popular belief, Western democracy is not only bad but inferior to a very different but realistic alternative.

.It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist
thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist
society established and maintained, by armed violence.^A point at which there will be no more middle-road—a point at which, if we survive, we will survive either as free participants in established egalitarian societies or as a new class of serfs.

.Recourse to
violence then is an indication of weakness, not of strength, and
the revolution with the greatest possibilities of a successful
outcome will undoubtedly be the one in which there is no violence,
or in which violence is reduced to a minimum, for such a revolution
would indicate the near unanimity of the population in the
objectives of the revolution.^Theres no one in this world .

."Violence as a means breeds violence; the cult of personalities
as a means breeds dictators--big and small--and servile masses;
government--even with the collaboration of socialists and
anarchists--breeds more government.^One of the two main definitions associated with the concept of dictatorship refers to a single person, or a small group of people, controlling the government of a country.

.Surely then, freedom as a means
breeds more freedom, possibly even the Free Society!^A point at which there will be no more middle-road—a point at which, if we survive, we will survive either as free participants in established egalitarian societies or as a new class of serfs.

.To Those who
say this condemns one to political sterility and the Ivory Tower
our reply is that 'realism' and their 'circumstantialism'
invariably lead to disaster.^Those who disagree with it should say that.

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^The people who subscribe to that thinking, are invariably themselves elitist westerners who have little to no experience of the tyranny of Social Realism in the USSR, and the more subtle tyranny of Social Realism in the west, whereby those musicians that do not conform to what the establishment decides is not "elitist" are ostracised.

.We believe there is something more
real, more positive and more revolutionary to resisting war than in
participation in it; that it is more civilised and more
revolutionary to defend the right of a fascist to live than to
support the Tribunals which have the legal power to shoot him; that
it is more realistic to talk to the people from the gutter than
from government benches; that in the long run it is more rewarding
to influence minds by discussion than to mould them by coercion."^The intellectual more real than the sensual.

--"Anarchism and violence" in What Is Anarchism?: An
Introduction by Donald Rooum, ed. .(London: Freedom Press,
1992, 1995) pp.^See: William Adam Russ, "The Hawaiian Republic" (1894-98) (Associated University Press, London and Toronto 1992).

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50-51.

Rudolf
Rocker:"I am an anarchist not because I believe anarchism is
the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final
goal."

.Rudolf
Rocker:"People forgot that industry is not an end in itself,
but should be only a means to insure to man his material
subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher
intellectual culture.^Democracy is only a means, liberty is the end.

^A great work, too, will have been accomplished by them.’ Great, yes, but not the greatest; for man is a social being, and can only attain his highest development in the society which is best suited to him.

^The love of liberty can come only from within and is dependent on a stable family and a society that seeks the brotherhood of man through voluntary and charitable means.

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.Where industry is everything and man is
nothing begins the realm of a rushless economic despotism whose
workings are no less disastrous than those of any political
despotism.^Or will we strive to find a less-violent solution that serves the needs of humanity more than those of the military-industrial complex?

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.Donald Rooum: "Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists,
"libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and
"socialist" meaning the demand for social equality.^(POA note: As green libertarian socialists—i.e., eco-anarchists—we post this essay very reluctantly.

/../ .Complete
freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the
poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches.^For in every state there are two hostile nations, rich and poor, which you may set one against the other.

.Complete
equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions
cannot be the equals of those who impose them."^The two openings in heaven and the two in earth through which passed those who were beginning and those who had completed their pilgrimage.

.Donald Rooum: "All anarchists believe in worker's control, in
the sense of individuals deciding what work whey do, how they work,
and who they work with.^All they had done was damage to Iran (including overthrowing Mosaddegh, the respected national leader in 1953, replacing him with Shah, the ex-king, who was their puppet).

.This follows logically from the anarchist
belief that nobody should be subject to a boss."^The belief in innate human virtue is normally found only among left-anarchist thinkers, but of course it does not follow, nor is it true, that all left-anarchist thinkers believe in humanity's innate human virtue.

.Donald Rooum: "There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not
to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the
state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed
over to capitalists."^The defining characteristic of a totalitarian state is totality: no unregulated civil society, all interactions are governed by regulations...

.Anarchists oppose the State because it
has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of
private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other
providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the
other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin
foci of invasions of individual rights."^The communist anarchists repudiate the right of private property which is maintained through the power of the state.

^He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Can We Call It a Dictatorship Yet?1 February 2010 7:40 UTCfiredoglake.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^So-called "minarchist" libertarians such as Nozick have argued that the largest justified government was one which was limited to the protection of individuals and their private property against physical invasion; accordingly, they favor a government limited to supplying police, courts, a legal code, and national defense.

Benjamin
Tucker: "Anarchism [is] the doctrine that all the affairs of
men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and
that the State should be abolished."[19]

."Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything
else."^[E]very serious man must declare himself: for Socialism, and thereby for force and against liberty, or for Anarchism, and thereby for liberty and against force."

Charlotte
Wilson: "... the genuine .Anarchist looks with sheer horror upon
every destruction, every mutilation of a human being, physical or
moral.^The error of our ways is that we are fixated upon our own self-interest, instead of looking out for the whole of the human race first.

^But the Republic proceeds as though every embodied human being has just one soul that comprises three parts.

Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)16 January 2010 13:013 UTCplato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

.He loathes wars, executions and imprisonments, the grinding
down of the worker's whole nature in a dreary round of toil, the
sexual and economic slavery of women, the oppression of children,
the crippling and poisoning of human nature by the preventable
cruelty and injustice of man to man in every shape and form."^War is not a natural part of human existence.

--"Anarchism and homicidal outrage" in What Is Anarchism?: An
Introduction by Donald Rooum, ed. .(London: Freedom Press,
1992, 1995) p.^See: William Adam Russ, "The Hawaiian Republic" (1894-98) (Associated University Press, London and Toronto 1992).

Was the 1893 overthrow of the monarchy illegal? Was it a theft of a nation owned by kanaka maoli and stolen by non-kanaka maoli?10 January 2010 4:57 UTCwww.angelfire.com [Source type: Original source]

43.

.George Woodcock: "a system of social thought aiming at
fundamental changes in the structure of society, and particularly –
for this is the common element that unites all its forms – at the
replacement of the authoritarian state by some form of
non-governmental cooperation by free individuals."^Far from all thought-systems and any systems at all .

^The IMO is a typically idealistic construct for bringing order to the world-a democratic assembly of 162 member nations, all of them determinedly equal, who work with the assistance of a technical staff and the consultations of accredited non-governmental groups to establish regulatory packages known as conventions, which the individual member states are then free to adopt (or not) in their sovereign maritime laws.

^The basic economic structure of society will change, some of the social relations will change, and some of the forms of political rule will change, and some of the forms of culture and ideology will change, but fundamentally the masses of people will not be increasingly and in one leap after another, drawn into the process of really transforming society.

DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM-- By Bob Avakian1 February 2010 7:40 UTCrwor.org [Source type: Original source]

.Victor Yarros: "Anarchism means no government, but it does not
mean no laws and no coercion.^Venality is by no means inconsistent with good government - indeed, the quality of government in the UK seems to have declined almost in lockstep with personal conflicts of interest.

.Anarchists oppose government, not because they
disbelieve in punishment of crime and resistance to aggression, but
because they disbelieve in compulsory protection.^That is because the real crime is resisting the state.

.Protection and
taxation without consent is itself invasion; hence Anarchism favors
a system of voluntary taxation and protection."^This moral dilemma that our society has encountered over the past 40 years, if not resolved in favor of life, will make it impossible for a system of laws to protect the life and liberty of any citizen.

A Republic, If You Can Keep It16 January 2010 13:013 UTCwww.house.gov [Source type: Original source]

John Zerzan:
"Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate domination. .This includes
not only such obvious forms as the nation-state, with its routine
use of violence and the force of law, and the corporation, with its
institutionalized irresponsibility, but also such internalized
forms as patriarchy, racism, homophobia.^Such use includes that of the 450,000 km 2 Ogallala Aquifer underlying eight U.S. states.

.Also it is the attempt to
expose the ways our philosophy, religion, economics, and other
ideological constructions perform their primary function, which is
to rationalize or naturalize --make seem natural-- the domination
that pervades our way of life: the destruction of the natural world
or of indigenous peoples, for example, comes not from the result of
decisions actively made and actions pursued, but instead, so we
convince ourselves, as a manifestation of Darwinian selection, or
God's will, or economic exigency.^Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy.

^I said: Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils,—no, nor the human race, as I believe,—and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.

.Beyond that, Anarchism is the
attempt to look even into those parts of our everyday lives we
accept as givens, as part of the universe, to see how they, too,
dominate us or facilitate our domination over others...^Those they look up to will help.

Obama Science Advisor Called For “Planetary Regime” To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.prisonplanet.com [Source type: Original source]

^If they cannot even see how empty their lives are, it proves they are truly brainwashed.

The Totalitarian Temptation and all that — Crooked Timber9 February 2010 17:20 UTCcrookedtimber.org [Source type: Original source]

.Most
fundamentally, I would see Anarchism as a synonym for
anti-authoritarianism."^It will now be time, I said, for us to return to our State and see whether this or some other form is most in accordance with these fundamental principles.

Commentary

If the average man had had his way there would probably
never have been any state.

^X-man there is noooooo way you can portray the Monarchy as an outdated and un-democratic institution when the most modern, progressive, and prosperous states in this day and age are Constitutional Monarchies (Ex.

^But if the every school were a state school, and Charles Murray were the Secretary Dictator of Education, he really would be in a position to have his way.

The Totalitarian Temptation and all that — Crooked Timber9 February 2010 17:20 UTCcrookedtimber.org [Source type: Original source]

.Even today he resents it, classes death
with taxes, and yearns for that government which governs least.^The average middle class person with even a modest portfolio doesn''t have a hope of filing their taxes correctly, even in normal years, toss in a death or some special circumstance and it's impossible.

.If
he asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his
neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist,
and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. In the
simplest societies there is hardly any government.^If you think about it there are only so many trees.

DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM-- By Bob Avakian1 February 2010 7:40 UTCrwor.org [Source type: Original source]

The anarchists put the thing upside down.^Some things you have to put your foot down and say "This will not be allowed, because if it is, the masses of people are going to be demoralized and disoriented, and the reactionaries are going to be emboldened."

DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM-- By Bob Avakian1 February 2010 7:40 UTCrwor.org [Source type: Original source]

^You have those things where you have to put your foot down and say yes, or no -- this is the way it is, and this is the way it is not.

DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM-- By Bob Avakian1 February 2010 7:40 UTCrwor.org [Source type: Original source]

^Where do we need this "solid core," in other words, and what are the things over which we can have a lot of differences and diversity, and we don't have to put our foot down and resolve it and say it is this way or that way.

DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY, AND THE SOCIALIST TRANSITION TO COMMUNISM-- By Bob Avakian1 February 2010 7:40 UTCrwor.org [Source type: Original source]

.They declare that the
proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the
political organization of the state.^But they are not organized along state lines, or any convenient border.

.But to destroy it at such a
moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the
victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold
down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic
revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a
new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those
after the Paris commune.^This means that their hold on power is insecure.

Creators of the atomic bomb: debasing nuclear power into a totalitarian order in the new world 9 February 2010 17:20 UTCwww.heaven-words.com [Source type: Original source]

^The anarchist idea was to overhaul the economic and social foundations of society without resorting to a political State, government or "dictatorship" of any description, which is to say to carry out the Revolution and resolve its difficulties, not by political and State means, but by means of the natural, unforced economic and social activity of the workers' very own associations, once the last capitalist government had been overthrown.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered
anarchy.^Ideally, because New California is in a state of order, the Dictator does not need to deploy her prerogative , which is her sovereign right to violate her own law.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
in Gandhi's Wisdom Box (1942), edited by Dewan Ram
Parkash, p.^Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

From Wikisource

Anarchydisambiguation

.This is a disambiguation page, which lists works which
share the same title.^The Site Overview page has links to all individual Subject Index Pages which between them list the works by Manfred Davidmann which are available on the Internet, with short descriptions and links for downloading.

In the second use, "anarchy" has to do with having no political order. The CIA World factbook says that there is only one nation, Somalia, that is in a state of anarchy. In Somalia, the government is no longer in control, and some parts of the country are ruled by mobs and warlords who sometimes fight one another.

(Another use of the word “Anarchy” is when it is said as “The Anarchy”. This is the name that is sometimes given to the civil war and unsettled government in England when Stephen of England was King.)

When there is no political order, more than one government or political authority might sometimes compete for the same food, oil, land, or groups of people. The word "Anarchy" to used to describe this. However, because there is more than one competing authority, a better word might be polyarchy. The difference between "anarchy" and "polyarchy" is important to someone who thinks that true anarchy would work well. The word for someone who thinks this is "anarchist", and the word for this kind of thinking is "anarchism". Anarchism has been thought about for hundreds of years.

Where the word comes from

The word anarchy comes from the Greek word αναρχία (anarchia), which means "without a leader".

"While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary for society, and instead advocate more co-operative, anti-hierarchical forms of social, political and economic organisation." [The Politics of Individualism, p. 106]